Rhetorical Devices

Three nouns, adjectives or verbs will be used in a list within a sentence

• Anaphora

• Asyndeton

• Lists of three

• Hyperbole

The technique of repeating the same word and phrase

• Polysyndeton

• Asyndeton

• Repetition

• Allusion

The writer incorporates aspects of their personal experience into the text – look for ‘I’

• Emotional language

• Personal involvement

• Lists of three

• Facts and statistics

The writer involves the reader by relating the subject to their lives "You,we,us,our"

• Audience Involvement

• Personal involvement

• Facts and statistics

• Expert opinion

Information and data, that can be proved to be true

• Audience Involvement

• Personal Involvement

• Facts and statistics

• Expert opinion

The knowledge of an expert is referred to by the writer

• Facts and statistics

• Personal opinion

• Audience involvement

• Expert opinion/quotation

The writer uses superlatives and adjectives to make a situation seem much worse / better than it really is

• Rhetorical Question

• Over-exaggeration

• Emotional Language

• Irony

Language that is used to create a particular emotional response in the reader

• Emotional Language

• Facts and statistics

• Irony/sarcasm

• Pun

Ideas are presented in a way that seems opposite to what is really meant

• Emotional language

• Over-exaggeration

• Irony/sarcasm

• Pun

A joking use of a word sounding the same as another

• Irony/sarcasm

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Pun